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(No Model.)

J. OANAN.

BOTTLE.

No. 364,477. Patented June 7, 1887.

N. PETERS. Moi-1W, Wa-Nnflon. D, C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

JAMES OANAN, OF PORT COLBORNE, ONTARIO, CANADA.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,477, dated June '7, l887.

Application filed February 3, 1887. Serial No. 226,412. (No model.) i

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES CANAN, of the village of Port Golborne, in the county of \Velland, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, gentleman, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottles, of which the folthe bottle and having a double-ended valve,

one end of the valve being disk-shaped and designed to close the bottom end of the tube, while the other end of the valve is pistonshaped, so as to fit the tube, said valve being provided with a supplemental valve and means for causing it to open, the distance between the disk end of the valve and the piston end of the valve representing a space in thetube calculated to contain the quantity of liquid it is desired to pour from the bottle at one time, the whole being constructed and operated substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of my bottle, showing the position of the double-ended valve at the moment the bottle is tilted for the purpose of pouring out its contents. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the bottle, showing the position of the valve when the liquid is being poured from the bottle.

I11 the drawings, A represents a bottle having a long neck designed to receive the tube B. O is a disk-shaped valve, designed to close the lower end of the tube B. This disk-shaped valve is connected to the piston-shaped valve D, which fits into the tube B, as shown. This latter valve D has an aperture, a, through it, which is closed by the valve E, held against its seat by the spring I), and provided with legs (I, which extend through and project beyond the top surface of the valve E.

A support, F, is formed on the inside of the bottle A, so that the double-ended valve 0 D shall be supported with its upper end, D, in

- the tube B when the bottle is in an upright position.

latter valve will be carriedv toward the tube B; but as the diameter of the valve Gis greater than the interior diameter of the tube B, it necessarily closes the end of the said tube when it comes in contact with it, as shown in Fig. 2. Immediately before this contact is effected the legs (I, formed on the valve IE, will come in contact with the shoulderf, formed on r the top end of the tube B, forcing the valve E open bythe time that the valve 0 has closed the end of the tube B. Consequently the liquid between the valves 0 and D will flow out through the aperture a; but the valve 0 cffectually prevents any more liquid escaping than that which may at that time be between the valves 0 and D.

When the given quantity of liquid specified has been poured out of the bottle it is replaced in its normal vertical position, when the weight of the double-ended valve 0 D causes it to drop back into the bottle until its cushion e comes in contact with the top of the support F, when the operation just described may be repeated.

While I think it preferable to make the tube B detachable from the bottle A, it will of course be seen that a shoulder might be formed in the neck of the said bottle, soas to receive the valve 0. A spring, I), will, I think, be preferable for the purpose of assisting the closing of the valve (3; but it may be found that it can be dispensed with.

Although I prefer a disk-shaped valve, E, a valve of a different shape might be substituted.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A tube, B, fitted into the neck of the bottle A, in combination with the valve 0, connected to the piston-shaped valve D, having an aperture, a, provided with a valve, E, and

means to cause the valve E to open as the Valve 0 closes, arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. A tube, B, fitted into the neck of the bottle A, and having a should-e131", formed on its top end, in combination with the valve G, connected to the piston-shaped valve D, having an aperture, a, provided with avalve, E, having legs d formed 011 it, substantially as and .for the purpose specified.

3. The piston-shaped valve D, provided with a valve, E, and connected to the valve 0, having a cushion, e, formed on it, in combination with means for opening said valve E, and the support F, extending from the bottom 

